Glenn Greenwald: Edward Norton floated for movie

Journalist Glenn Greenwald doesn’t want to speculate on who will play him and Edward Snowden in a movie, but has already heard of a few possibilities.

“The leading names, that I’ve seen are Jared Leto for Edward Snowden, who with I’m not really familiar. And Edward Norton has been mentioned a lot for me, but that’s definitely very low on my list of priorities,” Greenwald told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “The Lead” on Wednesday.

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Sony Pictures said Wednesday that it bought the rights to Greenwald’s latest book, “No Place To Hide,” according to Deadline, which details his Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting into the NSA and surveillance programs with information leaked by Snowden. It will be produced by the team behind the James Bond franchise.